Investigatory

1. What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope, in 1781? 2. What V-word is defined as "the ability of a liquid to resist flowing". 3. What unit of measure was originally designed to be one forty-millionth of the Earth's circumference? 4. What's sometimes dubbed Biosphere I? 5. What are "human incubation chambers" heated to before Gillette's odor judges test deodorants by smelling human armpits? 6. What antidepressant is most often referred to by snide shrinks as Slo Mo"? 7. What gardeners' aid is identified by numbers indicating its percentages of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium? 8. What facial features flank your glabella? 9. What organ of the body leads all others with 3,195 distinct genes? 10. What Cool Whip ingredient outweighs all the others? 11. What does a kit-flying linonophobic fear? 12. What's the common name for the eye inflammation doctors call conjunctivits? 13. What country flew the first supersonic airliner in 1968 but saw it crash in 1973? 14. What two-word term is defined as "the lowest possible temperature"? 15. What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs? 16. What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s? 17. What boxcar-sized instrument was repaired by the crew of the shuttle Endeavor in 1993? 18. What name for a bone disease translates as "porous bone"? 19. What earthenware ceramic was produced in ancient China from feldspar and china clay? 20. What's the U.S. military acronym for liquid oxygen? 21. What's one-tenth of a bel? 22. What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when first used in combat in 1776? 23. What type of machine do the French call a telecopie? 24. What unit of measure was once defined as the length of three grains of barley laid end to end? 25. What are the two main constituents of bronze. 26. What Greek